In April 2025 I had the pleasure of presenting a paper at NYU’s annual graduate conference, adapted from an earlier research paper.

Title: Bears Got Your Tongue: Protest, Autocritique, and Reflexive Form in Jafar Panahi’s No Bears

Funnily enough, in May 0f 2025 Panahi released his latest film, It Was Just An Accident, and won the 78th Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. Panahi is one of the most inspiring and committed filmmakers working today and presenting this paper was a blast.